We don’t see Megan looking uncomfortable with her sex appeal, but her Transformers co-star Shia says she was on set.

“Megan developed this Spice Girl strength, this woman-empowerment [stuff] that made her feel awkward about her involvement with [director] Michael [Bay], who some people think is a very lascivious filmmaker, the way he films women,” Shia told the Los Angeles Times. “I think [Fox] never got comfortable with it.”

“This is a girl who was taken from complete obscurity and placed in a sex-driven role in front of the whole world and told she was the sexiest woman in America,” he explained of Megan. “And she had a hard time accepting it…. And the one thing Mike lacks is tact. There’s no time for ‘I would like you to just arch your back 70 degrees.’ ”